Monday, February 24, 2014

Vol State Students Share Research at National Conference

Recently, Professor Parris Powers and Dean Nancy Morris accompanied
five students to Phoenix, Arizona for the 2014 National CURRI Undergraduate
Research Poster Session.Genna
Batchelder, Tyler Belisle, Corbette Jackson, Phillip Martinez
and Maria White presented posters on their Vol State undergraduate research
along with 57 other students from 26 community colleges around the
nation. The student
scholars from Vol State won first place in the molecular modeling
contest by creating a bacteriophage with certain elements given to each group
of contestants.

The 2014
CCURI Undergraduate Research Symposium was hosted by Mesa Community College in
Mesa, Arizona. Funding for travel was provided by a National Science Foundation CCURI grant.